Re: [patch V2 07/15] powerpc/ps3: Convert half completion to rcuwait

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
> cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
> TASK_IDLE instead.

Hmm it seems in general this needs to be done kernel-wide. This kthread abuse of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE seems to be a common thing. There's also the users doing
schedule_timeout_interruptible()...

Thanks,
Davidlohr